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A judge has denied a man’s request to be released from prison after he claimed Boone County prosecutors and Columbia police coerced him into confessing to a murder. Judge Milan Berry denied Charles Erickson’s petition in an order filed Monday in Pike County. The judge said in the order that Erickson never raised an issue

A crash was blocking the Missouri River Bridge westbound lanes at Rocheport Thursday morning. #I70ALERT – Crash blocking the Missouri River Bridge westbound near the 115 mile marker. Watch for stopped/slowed traffic if you’ll be traveling. pic.twitter.com/G7OnxgZZP2 — MSHP Troop F (@MSHPTrooperF) May 2, 2019 The crash happened after one vehicle hydroplaned on the roadway

Cyber crime experts said private messages and group chats on social media aren’t typically monitored. “It’s a very intricate process that these companies have to endure because there’s just so much traffic,” said Boone County Cyber Crimes Task Force Detective Tracy Perkins. Many social media platforms have millions of users, and Perkins said it’s impossible

Multiple roads remained closed across mid-Missouri on Thursday as water levels continued to rise in low lying areas. The roads in Boone County that are listed as closed from their website are listed below: East Hartsburg Bottom Road in between E Grimes and S Bush Landing Easley River Road near Coopers Landing West Gillespie Road

ThermAvant Technologies opened a new 33,000-square-foot facility in Columbia Thursday. According to a press release from the company, the new space will more than quadruple its engineering and manufacturing space. The new facility is at 2508 Paris Road in Columbia. Many know the location as what was formerly the Silver Bullet. Joe Boswell, CEO and

TONIGHT: As showers are departing Mid-Missouri, we are finally getting a chance to catch our breath around the viewing area. We’ll be left with mostly cloudy skies tonight as temperatures fall back into the low to mid 50s for lows. FRIDAY: After a dry start, shower chances will increase heading toward the afternoon on Friday.

Emergency crews responded to a crash on Stadium Boulevard in Columbia on Thursday night. The Columbia Fire Department tweeted that it was working the extrication crash. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/Columbia_Fire/status/1124078694820122625″,”author_name”:”Columbia_Fire”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/Columbia_Fire”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;CFD Units working an Extrication accident at Hwy 63 and Stadium Blvd &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/rhpdNhDpEU”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/rhpdNhDpEU&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;— Columbia_Fire (@Columbia_Fire) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/Columbia_Fire/status/1124078694820122625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;May 2, 2019&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″} It happened around

Missouri Democrats called on the majority party to fast-track passage of the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act. In a news conference Thursday, state Rep. Greg Razer criticized the GOP over its “silence” on the matter. The bill would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes in Missouri’s Human Rights Act. The MHRA

UPDATE: As of 4:40 p.m., 11 customers remained without power between five separate outages. ORIGINAL: About 1,500 customers in south Columbia were without power Thursday afternoon. We are experiencing about 1,500 customers without power. Please call 573.875.2555 to report an outage and visit https://t.co/YdwqNhMk63 to view outages. pic.twitter.com/is5jgnFyoW — Columbia Water&Light (@CoMoWaterLight) May 2, 2019

A Brazilian education firm that had an agreement with the University of Missouri filed a lawsuit last month in federal court that claims the university sent them surprise invoices and breached their contract. High School Servicos Educacionais, which enrolls Brazilian students in a pre-college program through MU called Mizzou K-12 Online, claimed in the lawsuit

SSM Health announced on Thursday its plans to sell its home care and hospice ministries in Jefferson City and Mexico, Missouri, to LHC Group, Inc. The sale will be finalized on June 1. Once the transaction is complete, SSM Health’s home health and hospice ministries will operate as Central Missouri Home Health and Central Missouri

THIS AFTERNOON : We’re slowly starting to dry out across the region. Clouds will stick around into the afternoon and we’ll stay mostly cool. Temperatures struggle to climb to 60. It’s a cool and damp day across Mid-MO. TONIGHT : Under partly cloudy skies we stay mostly dry through the night. Temperatures dip into the

The University of Missouri is expecting a 15 percent jump in freshman enrollment from 2018 for fall 2019. As of Thursday, 5,460 had paid their enrollment deposits. However, students can continue to enroll through the summer, so those numbers could change. “The projected average ACT of MU’s incoming freshman class is over 26,” the university

The Morgan County prosecutor has filed a charge after deputies discovered a marijuana grow operation earlier this year. Jason L. Draffen, 32, of Versailles, was arrested March 14 at a home in the 400 block of West Dekalb Street in Versailles. According to court documents obtained by ABC 17 News, deputies found nearly 100 marijuana

*A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for all of Mid-Missouri until Thursday night* THURSDAY: Showers linger into the morning commute with heavy downpours and small hail. There will be a drying trend through the afternoon, with showers and storms continuing along and south of I-44 in the afternoon. Clouds hold, and highs stay in

Crews responded to a water main break in east Columbia on Wednesday night. It happened before 9 p.m. in the 300 block of south Ann Street. Columbia Water and Light crews as well as Ameren crews were still on the scene at 7:45 a.m. Thursday. Workers spent most of the night determining the cause of

As much of Mid-Missouri prepares for a possible second round of rain, emergency responders are ready to continue helping drivers that get caught on flooded roadways. The Jefferson City Fire Department rescued a woman from her car on South Boulevard shortly after midnight Wednesday. No injuries were reported, and the department posted a picture online

UPDATE 10:30 p.m.: Boone County Road and Bridge crews are monitoring flood conditions. Two workers checked the water level on Gillespie Bridge Road just before 9 p.m. Wednesday and said the water was too deep for the road to reopen. Boone County Road and Bridge also closed Easley River Road at around 7:30 Wednesday evening

A Columbia woman was charged in federal court Wednesday with child pornography charges. Brittany Bailey, 29, is accused of knowingly distributing child pornography and conspiring with others to distribute and receive child pornography. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson signed a warrant for Bailey’s arrest on April 29. According to court documents, a detective with the Metropolitan

The Missouri Department of Transportation will make emergency repairs to the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 at the Missouri River Bridge near Rocheport starting Saturday. The repairs will start at 7 p.m. Saturday, and crews work 24 hours a day on the repairs until they are complete. The work is expected to last through May